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The Medal of Honor rests on a flag during preparations for an award ceremony. Brandan W. Schulze/U.S. Navy WASHINGTON — Lying about receiving a military medal could become a crime, under a bill headed to the president's desk. The Stolen Valor Act cleared the Senate Wednesday and the H...
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The two Okinawan protesters wore Chinese military fatigues, and their compact car was plastered with anti-U.S. military placards and portraits of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, current leader Kim Jong Un and the father of Chinese communism, Mao Zedong. Loudspe...
The U.S. Capitol. Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — After years of quiet stagnation, the veterans benefits claim backlog has finally caught Congress’ attention. On Wednesday afternoon, leaders from the Senate Appropriations committee vowed close oversight of the backlog pro...
The U.S. Capitol. Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — After years of quiet stagnation, the veterans benefits claim backlog has finally caught Congress’ attention. On Wednesday afternoon, leaders from the Senate Appropriations committee vowed close oversight of the backlog pro...
The controversy over the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attack last year began at a meeting over coffee on Capitol Hill three days after the assault. It was at this informal session with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that the ranking Democrat as...
View Photo Gallery » Two French Rafale fighter aircraft prepare to break formation over Mali after refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 351st Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron on April 23, 2013.The squadron, out of RAF Mildenhall, England, deployed in late January to Spain...
A U.S. Military HIV Research Program scientist at work in 2010. U.S. Army SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — More than nine months have passed since the Navy decided to open up overseas and large-ship platform assignments to HIV-positive sailors and Marines, but not a single sailor has gotten...
One of Wayne Miller’s best-known photos from WWII was of a wounded pilot being helped from a fighter plane. The photo, now in the National Archives, is titled ‘Crewmen lifting Kenneth Bratton out of a turret of TBF on the USS Saratoga after raid on Rabaul,’ and is dated November, 1943...
